It’s a very short post today regarding 5 main city facilities in Dynasty Warriors 7 world with some English screens. You can find the rest of them here @ www.dynastywarriors7.eu – with a lot of information about the game as well.

WEAPONS
– You create your weapon here. The types of weapons will increase when you unlock more capital cities in the game.

BLACKSMITH
– You can leave your weapon here and pay the fee in gold, your Seal Gauge (see here) will increase depending on your performance in battle. The cost will change depending on the weapon you leave.

TEA HOUSE
– Select a Sworn Ally and Guardian Animal to take into battle with you.
** Sworn Ally – Bonds represent the connection between you and the other characters. The stronger your bond, the more likely the other officer to join you in battle, and the more items you will be able to view in the Gallery. Bonds can be strengthened by talking to an officer in a city, or by assisting them in battle. When your Bond reaches to a certain level, an event will occur within the city, and you can become sworn allies with the other officer. When you make a sworn ally, you can select them in the Tea House and take them to battle with you. (Officers may visit the city from time to time. If you talk to them, then your Bond with them will increase.)
** Guardian Animal – You can take Guardian Animals into battle with you. You may purchase them from the Merchant. They will fight alongside your officer during battle and you can also ride some of them, such as horses and elephants, definitely not the pandas or wolves… You can choose which Guardian Animal to take to battle with you here at the Tea House. (Guardian Animal Abilities: Speed; Power – able to knock down the powerful enemies when running over them; Attack – more damage)

MERCHANT
– The merchant appears from time to time within the city. He will allow you to obtain information on clearing stages, hiring officers, and purchasing Guardian Animals and weapons.
** From the Merchant you can request assistance in battle from other officers. The officer you request will appear during battle as reinforcements. You can only request assistance from one officer at a time.

SCHOLAR
– The Scholar appears from time to time within the city. He will ask you to a quiz about the Three Kingdoms (pick the correct answer out of 4 choices given) – If you answer his questions correctly, you will receive extra gold.

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Closing Comment: Here to spoil you. Well, I think most of you have already seen this. The opening intro of Dynasty Warriors 7, I think it would be so good if this could actually happen in the game, I mean running on the wall, avoiding the crazy weapon attack, kicking the horses, fighting at the waterfall and most randomly, the bungee jumping lady with a scarf in bikini – that actually sounds pretty good as a mini game to be able to play as a sexy bikini girl to catch the fallen Chinese baby. I’m a geek!

In Dynasty Warriors 7, you are able to equip two weapons at a time, you can equip it and use it anytime you want in the battlefield. Each weapon has its special features, and any officer can use any weapon. When you obtain a weapon (by defeating the officers in the battlefield or purchase it from the shops in the city), other officers will be able to use it as well. Here comes the brief explanation about the compatibility and the seals equipped to the available slots in your weapon.

COMPATIBILITY
– This shows how capable your officer will be with each type of weapon. There are weapons that require [Power] and those that require [Speed]. Depending on the power or speed of your officer, the Compatibility will change. You can increase your officer’s power or speed through the use of Skills (to be explained later). There are total of 3 stages.
★ (Poor) – You’re not able to use the weapon effectively.
★★ (Good) – You’re able to use the weapon freely and the attack speed increases slightly.
★★★ (Excellent) – You have mastered the weapon and you may be able to perform special maneuvers.

** SKILLS
– This is nothing to do with the weapon itself but your officer, you get Skill Points from the battlefield and you can use it to learn new skills, for example, to increase your attack strings, to increase the amount of your Musou bar/unit, learn the Alternate Musou Attack and more. (You share the Skill Points you earned in general but you use the Skill Points to learn new skills on your character separately.)

SEALS
– Each weapon offers a different seal for you to obtain. Once obtained, a seal can be equipped to power up your weapons and give your character various abilities. Each time you defeat an enemy, your equipped weapon’s Seal Gauge will fill. Once the gauge is full, the seal will be available for you to equip. The seals include [Musou +1], [Max Health Up] (+ to +++), [Attack Up], [Defense Up] and more. (Seals are only attached to your weapons, not on yourself. If your weapon A has [Attack +++] attached, that means when you use that weapon, your attack will be increased automatically by equipping it.)

** EX ATTACK
– Nothing to do with the weapon itself but it shows a little bit of “uniqueness” of your character. These are attacks that you can perform by equipping a weapon that your officer is proficient with (denoted by an “EX” mark). The controls will vary depending on the officer. You can confirm them by checking the menu. More info, please click HERE.

SWITCHING WEAPON
– When you switch from Weapon #1 to #2 (or #2 to #1), you will be able to perform some stylish attack, for example, if you switch a spear to another weapon, you would be able to grab the enemy and if you succeeded, it’s possible for you to show off this swinging “helicopter attack” as I previously mentioned.

Check out this gameplay video to have a better understanding about how you switch the weapon from one to another.

Notes:
– Each character has their own Musou and Alternate Musou attack with their own weapon, no matter what other weapons you’re using.
– Each character has their own EX attack based on their category, they can’t perform the EX attack with other weapon types.

Warriors: Legends of Troy is gonna come out in few weeks time. For the official site progress, I’m doing it so expect for more new characters and information. Today, I’m gonna share the Battle Controls here. Been playing this for months, from the expo demo and the updated version, must say I’m actually impressed with its atmosphere, great background design (it’s not dull), it’s quite different than Dynasty Warriors series because you don’t have impossible costumes to wear on the battlefield with crazy weapon and fancy finishing moves, this one is more realistic and gory. I personally like the boss battle and also being able to pick up the weapon straight from the battlefield and throw it to the opponent.

I also suggest you to visit @Lead_wotawaster‘s blog with his Warriors: Legends of Troy posts HERE as it’s very informative. Now let’s go straight to the Battle Controls explanation with PlayStation 3 controls as a reference.

QUICK ATTACK (Square button)
– A quick attack that’s useful to strike a large group and weaker enemies.
– You can press Square button repeatedly for a Quick Combo and execute different combos by pressing Triangle or (X) button.

FOCUSED ATTACK (Triangle button)
– A powerful thrust that can pierce a single enemy’s defenses.
– You can press the Triangle button repeatedly to perform other attacks for combos.

STUN ATTACK ((X) button)
– A Stun Attack is a quick kick or shield strike that does no damage to an enemy, but will knock them back away from your character or stun them briefly – I normally press (X) to break the enemy officer’s shield then Triangle to finish him off.

FINISHER (Triangle button)
– If the situation is right, you may be able to eliminate enemies with a dramatic finisher attack.
– Catch a critically injured enemy off guard, stunned or on the ground and the Triangle button icon may appear above them, indicating that the enemy can be taken out with style.

LOCK-ON (Hold L1 button)
– Hold down the L1 button to lock on to one nearby enemy, making it easier to attack or throw weapons.
– Your character will turn to face the locked-on enemy, even when they are moving.

FURY ((O) button)
– The Fury Gauge will fill up as you attack enemies. Once it’s filled, press the (O) button to enter the Fury. This will stun nearby enemies for a moment, slowing time and making your character’s attacks much more powerful.
– Once in Fury, the Fury Gauge will deplete until it is empty, at which point Fury will end and the character will return to normal strength.

BLOCK / PARRY (R1 button)
– Hold the R1 button to block an enemy’s attack.
– Tap the R1 button just before being attacked, you will parry and stun the enemy for a moment. If the timing of hitting the R1 button is perfect (Perfect Parry), you will perform a powerful counter-attack.

PICK-UP / DROP (L2 button)
– When you go near to a dropped weapon, you can press the L2 button to pick it up.
– While carrying an enemy’s weapon, you can press the Square button to perform a Quick Attack.
– While carrying an enemy’s weapon, you can press the Triangle button to throw it.
– You can press the L2 button again to drop it.
– You can also lock on to an enemy before throwing a weapon to increase your accuracy.

That’s it for now. You can check out the latest screens of Warriors: Legends of Troy (like the boss battle against Griffin and Cyclops above) by clicking HERE. The official website is www.troy-game.com – any question, feel free to ask.

Today, I’ll be talking about available Modes in Dynasty Warriors 7. They are: Story Mode (known as Musou Mode in Japanese), Conquest Mode (known as Chronicle Mode in Japanese), Gallery, Encyclopedia, Options and Tutorials. Actually there’s another one, which is Continue, this is to resume the battle from your previously saved game.

STORY MODE
In this mode, you can select a kingdom (Shu, Wei, Wu, Jin) and play through their story. You can pick your difficulty level – Beginner, Easy, Normal, Hard or Chaos. In Story Mode, you can only play it in one player, so no offline split screen or online co-op in this mode. The officer you play as is predetermined for each stage as well. I think this is for a better story telling and also for the sake of seamless play which you start it with the cutscene then the character goes straight to the battle. You can save the game while you’re playing, also you can choose previously cleared scenario to play through again with the predetermined character for that particular stage.

CONQUEST MODE (more info)
You can play various stages to take over the whole map. For this one, you can select any officer you want to play as, and change your officer any time you want. And as you proceed through the game, you can unlock the additional officers as well. You can do a split screen offline co-op and online co-op in this mode. If you want to know more information about Conquest Mode, please go HERE. A big thanks to Shadowclaimer – I’m in tears!

TUTORIAL
You play as Guan Ping and learn how to play the game. There are several missions for this one, no harm to try as I’ve learned how to use the EX attack from here.

Closing Comments:
I think the next one from me is probably the City Facilities or the Weapons analysis, will keep you updated when the time comes. At the meantime, please enjoy these new trailers for Wu and Shu which have just been released few hours ago.

I’ve also attached the battle music which I’ve found on YouTube. Shu Battle is definitely my cup of tea! Actually, they’re all good, it’s really just because I’m one of the Shu fanboys…

In this article, I’ll be explaining 3 main attacks you can perform in Dynasty Warriors 7. They are EX Attack, Musou Attack and the Charge Attack. As you have already known, in Dynasty Warriors 7, you can equip any weapon you want on your character, let’s say I’m using Zhao Yun, his preferable weapon is a Spear, so I can change his 1st and 2nd weapon to another category, let’s say Iron Fans and Iron Fans (same one) – it’s possible, but you can only do with the normal combat and charge attacks, but not EX attack because Zhao Yun can only perform the EX attack in “Spear” weapon category only. So let’s go from the EX Attack first.

EX ATTACK
These are attacks that you can perform by equipping a weapon that your character is proficient with (for example, Zhao Yun with Spear, Xiahou Dun with Sword) – They’re denoted by an “EX” mark). The controls will vary depending on your character, in which means, they are all unique. For example, Xiahou Dun is using a sword, Sima Zhao is using a sword, although the attack wise might be similar but Sima Zhao will have his own unique EX attack with the body surfing (only he can use that since it’s unique) – you can do that by pressing S->S->T->T. So every character has their own EX attack but with different controls, some are S->T->T (Sima Shi for example), T->T (Zhong Hui for example) and S->S->S->S->S->T->T (Deng Ai for example).

MUSOU ATTACK
This is a special attack for each character. You can use it when you have your Musou Gauge charged fully (minimum 1 unit full). Everytime you use the Musou Attack, it consumes 1 unit of your Musou Gauge. If you’re playing with your friend (2 players) offline split screen co-op or online co-op. You can also perform the Musou Attack together if both of your Musou gauges are fully charged (at least 1 unit) and you’re next to each other. Each character has their own Musou Attack, let’s say if I’m using Zhao Yun and I have a fan rather than a spear equipped, my Musou Attack will still be Zhao Yun’s Spear Musou Attack. The Secondary Musou Attack, you can excute it by pressing R1 + Circle (O) button in the ground for some characters, for some characters, they have Air Musou as the Secondary Musou Attack, for that, press (X) button to jump and (O) button in mid-air.

CHARGE / STRONG ATTACK
Everything that ends with Triangle button is your Charge Attack or we call it “Strong Attack” – I always use it for crowd clearing. Although EX Attack is so much powerful than the Charge Attack but considering if you’re using the weapon that your character is not proficient with (without an EX attack) so Charge Attack is still useful.

Closing Comments:
I have received a lot questions and didn’t get a chance to answer properly (I answer what I can, normally I don’t answer the things that I can’t say) but I hope this info would help you, at least. I enjoy the game so far, there are some changes but when I got into it, it’s actually pretty sweet and I believe the Warriors fans would enjoy it as much as I do.

If you’re familiar with the control of any Warriors series games, you know Square is the button you have to press a lot and Circle (O) button is always the Musou attack. Thanks to the Renbu system which is finally gone, so you get to press Triangle more often than what you’ve done in the past Dynasty Warriors 6. The battle control for Dynasty Warriors 7 is pretty much the same but with some slight changes. I’ll tell you how every button works – remember I’m referring to the PlayStation 3 control here.

Square button
– Normal attack, which you press it quite a lot – Square, Square, Square for example.
– You can also use it while jumping (in the air) or running.
– However, you can’t use it while you’re in the water. You can only swim in the water.

Triangle button
– Strong attack that can follow the Normal attack for more powerful attack – Square, Square, Triangle for example.
– EX attack, different character has different EX attack command: TT, STT, SSTT, SSSSSTT.
– You can also use it while you’re riding horse, horse will jump.
– However, you can’t use it while jumping (in the air) with your own, so press Square button instead.

Circle (O) button
– Musou attack when you have 1 or more Musou gauge full. It’s the Special attack for each officer.
– You can’t charge your Musou gauge.

R1 + Circle (O) button
– To excute the Alternate Musou Attack on the ground, some characters’ Secondary Musou Attack is in the air (not on the ground) – to excute that, press (X) to jump and (O) while mid-air instead.

(X) button
– Jump, the longer you hold the (X) button, the longer you hold it, the higher you’ll jump.
– Mount / dismount horse, ladder climbing, utilize the siege weapons (you have to stand near them until the button command appears.)

L1 button
– Guard, block attacks from the enemies.
– Somersault, regain control when knocked into the air by an enemy attack.

L2 button
– Call horse, and you will hear a sound of a whistle.

R1 button
– Switch weapon. I normally use this in the middle of the attack, especially you switch it from a spear to another weapon, you will be able to jump your opponent’s head and perform this (00:52-00:55). Each weapon has its own stylish attack while switching.

R2 button
– Toggle map.

Left stick / directional buttons
– Move while you’re on the ground, swim while you’re in the water.

Right stick
– Rotate camera.

Select button
– Display the battlefield map and officer’s location.

Start button
– Pause and display the menu, like you can view your weapon info and even change it anytime you want.

Select + Start button
– Return to the main menu.

Shaking your controller
– Nothing will happen.

The game itself is gets better and better especially when your weapon and skills have been leveled up (you gain skill points to level it up yourself by learning it, based by the compatibility, also equipping the right attributes to the slot) – I might talk about this when the time comes. Check out the latest fucking amazing trailer featuring Wei kingdom here.

On the side note, please enjoy these epic battle themes for both Jin and Wei kingdoms. I was listening to them while I was writing this.